All-clear for Afghan combat video diaries

After citizen journalists, soldier journalists. British troops in Afghanistan may be equipped with video cameras and encouraged to blog about their experiences so that a museum exhibition can be updated almost in real time.

Last summer members of 16 Air Assault Brigade created Helmand: The Soldiers' Story at the National Army Museum in Chelsea, west London, the first such exhibition about a contemporary continuing conflict. Many are due to return to Afghanistan in April for a six-month deployment and are willing to gather new footage and objects.

The Ministry of Defence has agreed to lift restrictions on the use of recording equipment in combat zones for those contributing to the exhibition. Jo Woolley, the exhibition leader, said: 'We'll be able to keep our displays on Nato's operations in Helmand authentic and continually relevant.'